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Exchange or Donate Books

Bought a book and finished reading it? Well, don’t throw it away. The websites below allow you to either exchange your book with another one or donate it to a worthy community cause that maybe desperate for books. All you pay is the postage to ship it to whoever needs it.

Bookshare – Books for Qualifying Print Disabilities

  • Time taken:
    Upto 15 minutes to parcel up your book donation, in readiness for posting
  • Impact:
    Enables people with print reading difficulties to use adaptive technology to read books
  • Cost:
    Postage costs to a U.S. based address
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Country, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, North America, Quickies!, Recycle, Under 20 minutes, United States

Find out more about   Bookshare – Books for Qualifying Print Disabilities

Chegg – Planting Trees By Recycling Books

  • Time taken:
    10 - 20 minutes to fill in a form to initiate the process of selling or renting out your educational books
  • Impact:
    Saves students money. Saves books from ending up in landfill sites. Saves the planet as free trees are planted
  • Cost:
    Postage costs to a U.S. based address
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Environment, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, North America, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Under 20 minutes, United States

Find out more about   Chegg – Planting Trees By Recycling Books

Bookins

  • Time taken:
    Upto 15 minutes to package up unwanted books ready for posting
  • Impact:
    Stops books from being trashed and promotes recycling
  • Cost:
    Free to send books. Postage costs to receive books
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, Quickies!, Recycle, Under 20 minutes

Find out more about   Bookins

KarmaYog – Book Donation List

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to scan through list of books and package up books ready for posting
  • Impact:
    Provides much needed reading material for many educational establishments in India
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Asia, Country, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, India, Recycle

Find out more about   KarmaYog – Book Donation List

Candlelight Books

  • Time taken:
    Aproximately 15 minutes to collate and package books. A while longer to post them.
  • Impact:
    Provides much needed children's books in the Philipines
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Asia, Country, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, Philippines, Quickies!, Recycle, Under 20 minutes

Find out more about   Candlelight Books

Books Behind Bars – Books for Prisoners

  • Time taken:
    Upto 15 minutes to collate books. A wee while longer to pop them in the post
  • Impact:
    Encourgaes prisoners to read and educate themselves, which may improve their outlook on life
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, Human Welfare, North America, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Under 20 minutes, United States

Find out more about   Books Behind Bars – Books for Prisoners

Borderline Books

  • Time taken:
    Around 15 minutes to collate books. You'll then need to pop them in the post
  • Impact:
    Provides books to organisations working with the homeless, who may not otherwise gain access to books at that point in their lives
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, Quickies!, Recycle, Under 20 minutes

Find out more about   Borderline Books

Prison Books

  • Time taken:
    Approx 15 minutes to bundle up and package
  • Impact:
    Offers men and women behind bars the opportunity for self-empowerment, education, and entertainment that reading provides
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Country, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, North America, Quickies!, Recycle, Under 20 minutes, United States

Find out more about   Prison Books

Books Through Bars

  • Time taken:
    Around about 15 minutes to group the books together. You'll then need to post them.
  • Impact:
    Addresses the paucity of educational resources and programming made available to prisoners hoping to use the time of their imprisonment to effect positive change in their lives.
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Country, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, North America, Recycle, United States

Find out more about   Books Through Bars

Books Beyond Borders

  • Time taken:
    15 minutes to collate your books. Then, you'll need to post them.
  • Impact:
    Improves the quality of education, promotes literacy and improves health conditions for children in Central America
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, Recycle

Find out more about   Books Beyond Borders

Reader to Reader

  • Time taken:
    15 minutes to package up books. A little longer to pop them in the post.
  • Impact:
    Improves literacy in the poorest communities in America
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Country, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, North America, Recycle, United States

Find out more about   Reader to Reader

Book Donation Directory

  • Time taken:
    15 minutes to package up books.
  • Impact:
    Provides much needed reading material for so many worthy initiatives around the world
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, Recycle

Find out more about   Book Donation Directory

Directory of Book Donation Programmes

  • Time taken:
    Approximately 15 minutes to gather and package your books up.
  • Impact:
    Prevents books from being binned and recycles them for worthy causes across the world
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, Recycle

Find out more about   Directory of Book Donation Programmes

Books for Africa

  • Time taken:
    15 minutes aprroximately to package books up. Postage might take a wee while longer to complete
  • Impact:
    Contributing to ending the book famine in Africa
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Africa, Botswana, By Time, Cameroon, Country, Ethiopia, Exchange or Donate Books, Gambia, Ghana, Green, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Quickies!, Recycle, Under 20 minutes

Find out more about   Books for Africa

Better World Books

  • Time taken:
    15 minutes to bundle and package up your books.
  • Impact:
    Helps to fund literacy initiatives worldwide and prevents books from being trashed
  • Cost:
    Postage costs
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Exchange or Donate Books, Green, Recycle

Find out more about   Better World Books